Timeline for What's the best lens for taking pictures of cakes?
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| Jun 20, 2011 at 12:04 | comment | added | MattiaG | @AJ Finch - I would be happy to hear your opinion. Do you think mine is reasonable? Thank you! | |
| Jun 20, 2011 at 11:50 | comment | added | MattiaG | @AJ Finch - When you photograph food it's more important to make it look good than to give a faithful representation of reality and "bokehing-out" less than perfect parts of your cake is easier than making a perfect one. Of course I'm not stating these as rules, it's just a common approach I was thinking of when I wrote my answer above. | |
| Jun 20, 2011 at 11:48 | comment | added | MattiaG | @AJ Finch - it's to have some detail come out vividly, keeping distracting elements (towels, cutlery) and the background blurred, those things being just hints of what's happening around the dish. If you have a look at some recent cooking magazine you will find this approach is widely used. A finely textured cloth, shiny silverware, everything is suggesting some elegance beyond the main subject of the shot. | |
| Jun 20, 2011 at 11:20 | comment | added | AJ Finch | Honest question, @Mattia: why do you want a shallow depth of field? Don't you want the cake to be all in focus? At least for most shots? I guess I'm asking: is this food photography or product photography? I'm really interested to hear any answers / opinions. | |
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| Jun 20, 2011 at 0:17 | history | answered | MattiaG | CC BY-SA 3.0 |